Posted in Family, Friends, School, Travel on Aug 14th, 2010 3 Comments »
We moved away from Ithaca, New York 5 years ago. We lived there for 2 years during graduate school at Cornell University and it is still one of our favorite places we’ve lived. We, admittedly, went back every once in a while afterward to get our fill of the scenery, people, and used-book sales! Our [...]
Posted in Family, Travel on Aug 13th, 2010 2 Comments »
Our initial purpose in going to Utah was to attend a Cornell Branch Reunion from our graduate school days. However, with Liza’s endowment and family in town, we decided to extend our Bear Lake stay by a few days and go up early. We rented a cabin and had a great few days planned to [...]
Posted in Church, Family, Travel on Aug 12th, 2010 2 Comments »
As if we hadn’t had enough of planes up to this point, we hopped on another one on Monday and headed to Utah. Thank goodness it’s only an hour flight! We were only in the Provo area for less than 24 hours, but it will always be a memorable time! We started off our time [...]
Posted in Family, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 13th, 2010 4 Comments »
Last weekend we took an extended field trip to Amsterdam. We’ve been studying World World II and the Holocaust and felt this was a great time to take a short trip to see the Anne Frank House. It was amazing! The house has been left unfurnished – when the Germans were tipped off of the [...]
Posted in Family, Travel, site-seeing on Jun 20th, 2010 No Comments »
We said our goodbyes to Istanbul and boarded a plane to head further down the Aegean Coast to the area of Ephesus. We flew into Izmir and rented a car to get the hour south to a little village called Şirince. As we followed the GPS directions to the hotel, we drove around many switchbacks [...]
Posted in Family, Travel, site-seeing on Jun 15th, 2010 3 Comments »
After seeing the big site-seeing destinations, we decided to spend a relaxing afternoon atop a site-seeing bus. It was great. After being in the same part of the city for a couple days, it was refreshing to get out of our little hub and see the rest of Istanbul. I LOVE audio-guides, mostly for the [...]
Posted in Family, Travel, site-seeing on Jun 13th, 2010 No Comments »
Our first big holiday away from London and where did we go? Turkey! Our first attempt to get there was thwarted by the giant ash cloud that hovered over the UK for a time. Thankfully, it moved on . . . and so did we. Off to Istanbul, the only metropolis in the world that [...]
Posted in Kids, London, Travel on Dec 20th, 2009 No Comments »
First Day: Awake most of the day. Excited to be here. Only Problem: Going to sleep at night. Second Day: Tired most of the day. Excited to sleep. Only Problem: Staying awake during the day. This is a peek into last Friday, our second day here: Our attempt in getting Cami out of bed Friday [...]
Posted in Family, Holiday, Travel on Dec 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
My sister, Helen, and her family hosted Thanksgiving this year at Fort Knox, Kentucky. They were so great and accommodating as the list of company expanded over a short period of time. I can honestly say I had never been on an army post and enjoyed being woken up at 5:00 a.m. to the bugle [...]
Posted in Family, Travel on Oct 18th, 2009 12 Comments »
Chris had this last weekend on his calendar for ages so we wouldn’t miss it. What is “it”? The Ithaca Used Book Sale! It is always worth the trip upstate. We even planned an extra day to enjoy our old Cornell stomping grounds, but our plans changed significantly after being on the road for a [...]